Not Baaghi, but an apt title for the film seems to be Baarish with the director finding a weird and remote connection of the actors and their romance with the rains.
Story : Film kick starts in Bangkok. Female lead Shraddha Kapoor's father Sunil Grover plays a director here. Now enters the villain who kidnaps Shraddha and elopes.
Somewhere in Delhi a politician passes a comment thereby making the audience aware of the villain’s power. In a sequence of events, Tiger Shroff leaves for Kerala to learn a
fight skill and training, where the main leads cross each other on the way and as expected fall in love. His guru is apparently the bad man’s father. Weird and funny as it may sound the villain is so madly in love with her, that he doesn’t think twice before killing his own father who tries arranging a match somewhere else for him-quite ironical as he was the son who wouldn’t eat unless father around.
As the story proceeds. Tiger reaches Thailand for the damsel in distress who was besieged by the villain. On the way he meets a blind driver played by Sanjay Mishra who drives, fights and does all and everything possible that one can imagine from a person with no eyesight.
If this wasn’t enough, much to the amusement of the audience, the crackerjack in fights, Tiger falls flat on his face as he fights the baddies. The villain now commandws Shraddha and Tiger to be killed, quite whimsical as at one instance the villain killed his own father for Shraddha and now the contrary.
In an incompliant series of events, the fragile Shraddha is now seen fighting the goons. The final fight scene where Shraddha is confined and Tiger comes to her rescue is aped on the lines of an English movie. His unending, directionless fight scene on every floor of the building lends lesser sense. And the final blow on the audience comes when the villain loses on the battle so meekly thereby yielding a much contrasting image furnished by the director for the villain.
Screenplay carries no strength. The constant aimless hopping between Kerala and Bangkok leads to nothing but silly confusions. Probably the makers thought the USP of the film to be a son killing father brutally or a father asking his daughter’s boyfriend the number of times he kissed her and he be duly paid for the same. Mind boggles with their flighty ploys.
Dialogues Not upto the mark and unimpressive.
Music lousy, awful and not catchy.
Direction : Sabbir’s Baaghi script seems inspired from not one but a couple of movies. Sabbir has failed as a director miserably. Being once a production controller and a loyalist of Sajid Nadiadwala doesn't qualify him to helm the ship or take reins as a director. He hardly knew the characterization. Appears as if he had no idea of how to make his actors enact. Deserves zero star for his direction.
Acting : Tiger was worse than Heropanti. Performance was
disappointing. He was possibly guided by the director to concentrate less on expressions and focus more on stunts. Hangover of Ek Villain seems to have stuck Shraddha real hard who is still in the old mould and had too little to offer except for her feeble acting. Sunil Grover’s acting was a bummer but he fared considerably better than Mishra who was a washout. Sudheer Babu too had very less to offer with his acting and was showing off his body more.
Casting of the film evokes several questions and as to what sense prevailed on the director and producer when the role of Shraddha’s father was assigned to Sunil Grover or blind taxi driver’s role was given to Sanjay Mishra. Or for that matter Sudhir Babu was taken as the villain of the film whereas he has no standing amongst the Hindi speaking audience. Or was the criterion for signing him was his muscular strong body, if that’s the case than hundreds others qualify for the same but unluckily just a strong body is rarely a claim to success.
Final Verdict : Sans any emotions and entertainment but yes Baaghi has many decent fight sequences but too lengthy that even the rural audience of UP and Bihar will get bored. An emotionless damper, Baaghi will torture you to no end.
Will give it one star and the business rating would be one and half stars as it will manage to do a business of around 30 to 40 crore.